Use CAN in STM32

Posted on May 17, 2011 at 13:19

Hi All,

I am new for STM32 and CAN bus.

How to connect for test CAN between two of STM32 without CAN tranceiver ?.

1. Direct connect STM32#1 CAN_TX -> STM32#2 CAN_TX

or

2. Cross connect like USART, STM32#1 CAN_TX -> STM32#2 CAN_RX.

Thanks for advance

SJ

;)

Posted on May 17, 2011 at 13:19

Thanks Miles.

My subject are test and learn CAN bus protocol.

I use two of STM32 only.

:D

[ This message was edited by: sompong1990 on 06-08-2009 03:16 ]

Posted on May 17, 2011 at 13:19

Neither of those schemes would work. CAN is a bus, where all the devices' Tx lines can drive the bus, and all the devices' Rx lines read the bus. However, the CAN Tx line on microcontrollers doesn't float (the transceiver handles that), so you'll have the multiple devices fighting each other whenever one wants it high and the other wants it low.

If you don't want to use a transceiver, I've seen it done by putting a diode in series with the Tx line for each device (so that the Tx line can only pull the bus low, not drive it high), and then putting a pullup on the bus. Then connect all devices Rx lines directly to the bus. Note this is not compatible with the normal CAN physical layer (which uses a pair of wires for noise immunity). I'm not sure how many devices you can have, what distance the bus can be, what pullup value to use, etc.

Good luck,

Miles